In order to place myself correctly before the House on this question I wish to state that the reason I offer this proposition here is that while a bill has been for some years pending before Congress. looking to the position I now take. restricting the employment of labor or public works to citizens or residents of the United States and prohibiting the employment of nonresidents or aliens- Ibirds of passage "-this proposition is particularly in line with that suggestion. because it applies to work done upon the border. in waters that divide our country from a foreign country. where the injury to American labor by foreign competition is very much greater than in the interior sections of the country. This question was brought before Congress in 1874 and carefully considered. Now. with reference to the legislation. I would be glad in my own time to have read aletter from the Immigration Commissioner. and also a letter from the United States immigration inspector of the Treasury Department. bearing directly upon this question. I ask to have these read in my own time.
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